Fired Mazola, PSS Sleman Officially Appoints Pieter Huistra As Anyar Coach
PSS Sleman officially announced their new coach for the remainder of the 2024/2025 Liga 1 season. After sacking Mazola Junior, the Javanese Super Elang is now officially headed by Pieter Huistra.
The news of Pieter Huistra's appointment as PSS Sleman's new coach was announced on Wednesday, February 19, 2025. Through uploads on the club's official account, Pieter Huistra's photo was displayed with PSS President Director, Gusti Randa.
"We are dedicated to welcome our new coach, @pieterhuistra. Good job, present many victories for Super Elja in the rest of the season, coach!" write the caption for the upload.
Before finally being appointed to lead the Javanese Super Elang squad, Pieter Huistra had coached Borneo FC. While there, Huistra managed to help the Pesut Etam squad win the Regular Series Liga 1 2023/2024 and help the team reach the 2024 presidential Cup final.
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Borneo FC is also able to consistently be at the top. However, a series of minor results in Liga 1 2024/2025 made management end cooperation with the Dutch coach in mid-January 2025.
Meanwhile, Mazola Junior, the club has announced that their cooperation has ended on Tuesday, February 18, 2025, WIB night or the day after PSS lost 2-6 to Arema FC. The result also made the Javanese Super Elang swallow a four-time defeat.
PSS Sleman's performance under Mazola Junior showed a positive trend in his early days to replace Wagner Lopez in October 2024.
Together with Mazola, PSS managed to win over Barito Putera, Persis Solo, PSIS Semarang, and Madura United.
On that trip, PSS managed to get out of the relegation zone at the end of the first round of Liga 1. They also successfully opened the second round of competitions with a convincing victory over Persebaya Surabaya.
However, conditions began to turn later. Defeat after defeat continued to hit PSS. From the last five matches, Fachruddin Aryanto and colleagues only managed to get one point.
The defeat to Arema FC in the latest match was the biggest of the 13 defeats obtained throughout 23 matches this season.